Owen -

Yes, apparently RIPE makes the address blocks themselves somehow “magical” in 
nature for perpetuity regardless of who is the address holder - certainly an 
interesting approach when one considers the implications.

However, ARIN is the formal successor administrator of its registry with 
corresponding implications – for example,  RIPE hasn't usually consider such 
registrations within their policy scope, whereas in ARIN’s case, administration 
of the registry was specifically transferred to ARIN so that the community 
could have a voice in the policies by which they are managed.  Legacy resource 
holders don’t have to participate if they don’t wish to, but all of the address 
blocks are subject to the community-developed policy.

Thanks,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers


On 27 Apr 2022, at 10:49 AM, Owen DeLong 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Interestingly, if your resources were issued by an organization that was not 
one of the current 5 RIRs at the time of issuance, RIPE will consider your 
resources eligible to be treated as “legacy without contract” when you transfer 
to RIPE.

This is, by far, the most liberal and most respectful of legacy holders policy 
of any of the 5 RIRs at this time.

A simple virtual machine within the EU is sufficient to create the nexus 
necessary to effect the transfer. Once the resources are transferred, it is no 
longer necessary to maintain the VM.

Owen


On Apr 27, 2022, at 04:52 , John Curran 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Folks -

It’s important to note that these references shared below are _not_ based on a 
common definition of “legacy number resource"  –

ARIN considers a legacy number resource to be one that’s held by the original 
registrant (or their legal successor, e.g. due to merger) and that was issued 
by one of ARIN’s predecessor registries (NSI/InterNIC, GSI, SRI, Jon) and thus 
transferred to ARIN at the time of our formation.

ARIN extends basic registry services w/o fee or contract to legacy resource 
holders, and offers them the opportunity if they wish to enter into an RSA with 
ARIN, becoming a member and receiving all the same services as every other 
customer, ability to vote in elections etc. only with a special cap on their 
total registry maintenance fees (currently of $175/year, increasing $25/yr) 
that’s applied regardless of total size of IPv4 number resource holdings.

This is done in recognition that these legacy resource holders were involved in 
the earliest days of the Internet.

I understand that in other region "legacy number resource” may have other 
meanings, and in fact may not even be related to the present day party with the 
rights to the address block.

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers


On 26 Apr 2022, at 10:24 PM, Andrew Dul 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
...

Ripe's published services to legacy holders is documented here

https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/legacy-resources/ripe-ncc-services-to-legacy-internet-resource-holders

APNIC's calls these historical resources and its policies are noted here.  
APNIC will also require historical resource holders to become members effects 
Jan 1, 2023.

https://help.apnic.net/s/article/Historical-resources

https://blog.apnic.net/2021/03/26/rpki-services-now-available-to-apnic-historical-resource-holders/

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